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Do you know how many millions of children have been vaccinated against MMR who have absolutely no indication of ASD? This is not a new vaccine. Do you know how high the levels of Mercury are in the NJ water? Do you know that NJ is one of the most polluted states in the nation with higher rates than the national average not only of ASD, but birth defects and cancer, too? NJ alone has over 220 super fund sites. The high use of chemicals in our environments is a relatively new phenomenon. My generation (grew up in '80s) is one of the firsts to have grown up with a higher rate of these pollutants. By the time we got pregnant we had a large accumulation of these chemicals in our bodies over decades of exposure. Fetuses are being exposed to higher levels in utero than EVER before, & this is the MOST important time in development, period. We are exposed to more chemicals from a new car or the back of a TV set or pesticides on our food than we ever get from a single vaccine or from the entire vaccine schedule, yet people continue to focus on vaccines. Furthermore, signs of autism are apparent as early as 6 mos to the cautious and trained observer, far before the first MMR vaccine is ever started. Parents, being untrained in this area, do not notice these subtle signs or brush them off. But when they see the more obvious signs later in the second year, they see a temporal association between ASD and vaccines and run with it. Then parents, again uneducated on the subject, opt out of life-saving vaccines leading to the outbreaks of once rare diseases that we're seeing across the nations. Vaccine rates are dropping in various groups...yet the rates of autism continue to rise. Explain that in the context of vaccine conspiracy theories. Past vaccines have had adverse effects on occasion, & they're addressed promptly. Example- the old rotavirus vaccine and intussusception. This vaccine was promptly removed and reformulated, & the scientific jury is still out as to whether it was just another temporal association or something more concrete. In the face of ALL this evidence, WHY do people continue to waste time and effort fighting vaccines, which have provided decades long and millions in sample sizes worth of observational data to the contrary? Why not take a more serious look at all of these chemicals in our environment from big business polluters that our capitalistic society is so afraid to go up against? 220+ super fund sites in 1 small state and higher than average rates of cancer, birth defects, AND autism then the rest of the nation...and you STILl want to blindly focus on vaccines? We're in a lot of trouble.

the environment trumps genetics. Two decades late, but better than never. Now they need to take one more giant step from anything but vaccines to vaccines as cuase.